If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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